Joaquin Castro: “It is important that I am here today in this first hearing because it is a topic that means so much to me: democracy…”

Americans are living in a time of viciousness. Under Donald Trump, we are living in America the brutal, a Nation where the wrong skin color, the wrong accent, the wrong language makes you a suspect, puts you in danger, threatens your life…

mitigate staffing shortages by hiring, training, and certifying technical staff to be ready to assume those critical radar maintenance duties as technicians retire.

I don’t think it’s helpful to have missing key personnel from the [NWS] not in place to help prevent these tragedies.

I'm surprised that we have not taken a stronger stand and said, when you've got a group of people, including kids, that have committed no crime, we're not gonna put up with that, we are going to be able to see what's going on.